Sunday, June 16, 2013

• Reno Gazette-Journal – Environmentalists urge Gov. Brian Sandoval to block uranium waste shipments
• Bay Area Indymedia – San Onofre: Anatomy of a Nuclear Shutdown – Michael Steinberg
• East County Magazine – Citizens Oversight Says CPUC Violated Open Meeting Laws
• Los Angeles Times – Editorial: Who’ll pay for San Onofre?
• Quad-City Times – MidAmerican no longer pursuing nuclear plant idea in Muscatine County
• St. Clair Shores, MI Patch – Rep. Roberts Opposes Canadian Nuclear Waste Site – Edward Cardenas
• Augusta Chronicle – Report reveals truth about Japan disaster – Clint Wolfe, Ph.D.
• Bloomberg – Nuclear Decommissioning Surge Is Investor Guessing Game – Stefan Nicola & Julie Johnsson
• Forbes – How Fracking Killed Nuclear Power – Jeff McMahon
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – Radioactive waste stored near South Australian homes
• Asahi Shimbun – Government secretly backtracks on Fukushima decontamination goal
• Europe: The Guardian – Bradwell-on-Sea identified as potential site to dump radioactive waste – Terry Macalister

Saturday, June 15, 2013

• Contra Costa Times – Livermore anti-nuclear group sues federal agencies for documents on Livermore lab – Jeremy Thomas
• KPBS – NRC Considers Voiding Key Ruling On San Onofre – Alison St John
• Pacific Free Press – Chorus: We Said No Nukes! – Harvey Wasserman
• The Oregonian – Build disposal facilities to deal with nuclear waste: Guest opinion – Lee H. Hamilton and Brent Scowcroft
• Sioux Falls Argus Leader – Daugaard: South Dakota not site for nuclear waste – Jonathan Ellis
• Minneapolis Star Tribune – No way nuclear is a better way – Dean E. Abrahamson
• Chatham Star Tribune – Meeting focuses on dangers of uranium
• Japan Times – Almost 60% of public opposes Japan’s export of nuclear tech: survey

Friday, June 14, 2013

• CounterPunch – San Onofre and Davis Besse Back in the Crosshairs – Michael Leonardi
• Inland Valley News – Southern California Edison Announces Plans to Retire SONGS
• Laguna Beach Independent – Domes Will Remain Intact for Years – Rita Robinson and Andrea Adelson
• Los Angeles Daily News – Life after San Onofre is green: Editorial
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Should you pay for San Onofre bailout? – Michael J. Aguirre
• Nuclear Watch New Mexico – Nuclear Weapons Labs Made Improper Payments to Heather Wilson; She Should Resign from NNSA Council Determining Their Future
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Landfill issues draw interest of Erin Brockovich – Jeffrey Tomich
• Fond Du Lac Reporter – America should learn from Europe on wind power: Column – Iain Murray
• Beaver County Times – Report: Radioactive waste from fracking plagues Ohio – Rachel Morgan
• New York Times – Seeking Constructive Debate on Nuclear Energy – Andrew C. Revkin
• Reuters – World’s wind turbines to cross the 300 gigawatt mark – data
• TechNewsWorld – Nuclear Power, Part 1: A Smaller, Safer Future – Ned Madden
• TechNewsWorld – Nuclear Power, Part 2: Nukenomics – Ned Madden
• Bloomberg – Yen’s Slump Failing to Stem Exodus of Factories From Japan – Andy Sharp & Yuki Hagiwara
• Fairewinds Energy Education – Cleanup From Fukushima Daiichi: Technological Disaster Or Crisis In Governance? – Art Keller
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t recognizes three cancer-stricken print workers as workplace disaster victims
• Mainichi Daily News – Gov’t white paper on energy barely refers to nuclear phase-out goal
• Kyodo News – TEPCO loses personal info related to nuclear compensation claims
• Europe: Whitehaven News – Sellafield Fined £700,000 for Dumping Radioactive Waste
• Europe: Reuters – British court imposes heavy fine on nuclear waste plant owners – John Mcgarrity
• Europe: Reuters – Britain lobbies for nuclear export group to admit India – Fredrik Dahl
• Europe: Bloomberg – Scariest Atomic-Waste Burial Plan Has French Villages Up in Arms – Tara Patel

Thursday, June 13, 2013

• NY Times blog – Dark Money Politics – Thomas B. Edsall
• HNN Huntingtonnews – OP-ED: Fishy Accounts of Health Risks from Poison Fukushima Tuna – John Laforge
• Contra Costa Times – Livermore anti-nuclear group sues federal agencies for documents on Livermore lab – Jeremy Thomas
• Encinitas Coast News – SONGS is shuttered. Now what? – Bianca Kaplanek
• San Clemente Times – Nuclear No More–Swirling in doubt and rising in cost, Edison opts for lasting SONGS closure –
• Moab Times Independent – Uranium mill tailings removal pace gains steam – Steve Kadel
• Midwest Energy News – Exelon blames ‘subsidized’ wind, markets for derailing nuclear projects
• All Things Nuclear – Movie Review: Put “Pandora’s Promise” Back in the Box – Ed Lyman
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – Pandora’s false promise – Kennette Benedict
• The Nation – Pandora’s Terrifying Promise: Can Nuclear Power Save the Planet? – Mark Hertsgaard and Terry Tempest Williams
• Energy Collective – The Bigger Picture: Nuclear Energy vs. Fossil Fuels – Joseph Koblich
• Energy Collective – Sad Saga of San Onofre Nuclear Is Good News for Renewables – Herman Trabish
• Fairewinds Energy Education – The Echo Chamber Effect
• YubaNet.com – Mia Steinle: A Radioactive Waste of Money
• National Academies – Study on Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Lessons Learned and Improving Safety – Meeting June 24
• Los Angeles Times – Global Voices: Fukushima made ex-premier a ‘no nukes’ crusader – Carol J. Williams
• redOrbit – Marine Levels of Radioactive Strontium Spiked Following 2011 Fukushima Accident
• Asahi Shimbun – Damaged reactor building at Fukushima plant fully covered – Keisuke Katori
• Mainichi Daily News – Reconstruction Agency official’s tweets slander NGO, lawmakers supporting Fukushima victims
• Taipei Times – DPP to propose anti-nuclear, tax bills – Chris Wang
• Europe: EurActiv – Underwhelming proposals an excuse to prolong ageing nuclear reactors’ lifespan’
• Europe: The Guardian – Nuclear convoy disaster exercise reveals weaknesses in emergency response – Rob Edwards
• Europe: Bloomberg – Germans Still Aim for Future Without Nukes or Fossil Fuels, Despite Obstacles – Peter Friederici
• Europe: German Energy Transition – German nuclear plants and the flood – Craig Morris
• East Europe: President of Ukraine – President instructs Government to ensure money compensation for parents of children-victims of Chernobyl accident who are not on full state support – Viktor Yanukovych

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

• Huffington Post – Nuclear Power Is So 20th Century – Terry Tamminen
• 89.3 KPCC – A ‘David vs. Goliath’ tale of how a small environmental group helped close the San Onofre nuclear power plant – Ben Bergman
• Los Angeles Times – With San Onofre closing, sources of region’s energy are uncertain – Abby Sewell
• Pueblo Chieftain – Uranium mines to stay closed
• Telluride Daily Planet – New legal challenge to Piñon Ridge uranium mill – Collin Mcrann
• Minneapolis Star Tribune – Feds fault Monticello nuclear power plant’s flood planning – David Shaffer
• Hazelwood.Patch – Erin Brockovich’s Firm to visit West Lake Landfill, Will It Help? – Candace Jarrett
• MLive/Saginaw News – Letter: Nuclear energy needs to be abolished – Terry T. Crevia
• Beyond Nuclear – Davis-Besse’s “San Onofre-like” shortcuts on safety with steam generator replacement focus of NRC public meeting
• Platts – Exelon cancels power uprates for LaSalle, Limerick nuclear plants – Steven Dolley
• Wicked Local Plymouth – Of Nuclear Interest: Pilgrim Station’s impact on endangered right whales – Kevin Cassidy and Meg Sheehan
• All Things Nuclear – Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #8: Allegations – Dave Lochbaum
• BBC News – US oil production in largest ever single-year increase
• Energy Tribune – US to Have First Ever Commercial Small Modular Reactor by 2022 – Charles Kennedy
• ENS – World ‘Drifting Off-track’ for Two Degree Climate Limit
• New York Times – Atomic Power’s Green Light or Red Flag – Matthew L. Wald
• Nuclear Energy Insider – General Atomics: where is it focusing its 50 years’ experience in the fusion and fission energy market today? – See more at: Nuclear Energy Insider – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Peach Bottom LTO and Uprates: Another exciting year ahead – Peter Taberner
• Nuclear Energy Insider – Weekly Intelligence Brief 5 – 12 June 2013 – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Nuclear Energy Insider – NRC’s Macfarlane says entire fuel cycle must take holistic view – K. Steiner-Dicks
• Union of Concerned Scientists blog – Corporate Counterfeit Science – Both Wrong and Dangerous – Andrew Rosenberg
• GovTrack – S.Res. 164: A resolution designating October 30, 2013, as a national day of remembrance for nuclear weapons program workers. – Sen. Mark Udall [D-CO]
• UN: Asia Times – IAEA reform is long overdue – Yousaf Butt
• Oceania: ABC – audio: Nuclear waste a source for “Green Uranium”
• JIJI Press – Japan Regulator OKs Rules for Aged N-Reactors
• NHK World – Fukushima governor demands scrapping all reactors
• Europe: BBC News – Energy sector generates controversy in Wales
• Europe: Morning Star – Sellafield bosses play down near catastrophe – Peter Lazenby
• Europe: Reuters – Merkel vows to rein in renewable subsidies – Vera Eckert and Madeline Chambers
• East Europe: Platts – Poland faces choice between shale gas and nuclear: minister – Adam Easton

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

• Forbes – Southern California Edison’s Problems Ensnare Entire Nuclear Energy Sector – Ken Silverstein
• KPBS – San Onofre: Shutting Down A Nuclear Power Plant – Megan Burke, Tom Fudge, Patty Lane, Peggy Pico
• Los Angeles Times – Letters: Paying for San Onofre
• The Nation – Pandora’s Myths vs. the Facts–The truth about nuclear energy. – Mark Hertsgaard
• San Diego Union-Tribune – Readers have more to say about San Onofre
• San Francisco Chronicle blog – Will the “nuclear spring” ever arrive? – David R. Baker
• Denver Post – Colorado lawmaker to clean up his uranium mines
• Monticello Times – Nuclear Regulatory Commission gives Monticello plant yellow rating for flood preparedness – Tim Hennagir
• Valley News – Letter: Speak Up About Vermont Yankee – Nina Swaim
• New York Times – Nuclear Power’s Future May Hinge on Georgia Project – Matthew L. Wald
• U.S. News & World Report – 4 Myths About Nuclear Deterrence – Peter Huessy
• Science Daily – Fukushima Accident Raised Levels of Radioactive Strontium Off the East Coast of Japan by Up to 100 Times
• Asahi Shimbun – In age of Abe, local governments still fight for nuclear-free society
• Japan Times – Nuclear advocacy lands Abe in hot water with wife – Kanako Takahara
• JIJI Press – 60 Pct in Fukushima Worried over Radiation Heredity
• JIJI Press – TEPCO Sued for Inpatients’ Deaths
• Channel News Asia – Taiwan’s fourth nuclear power plant draws controversy – Victoria Jen
• South Asia: Deccan Herald – US’ DU weapons in Gulf Wars taking worse toll than Hiroshima – Neena Vyas
• Europe: News & Star – Sellafield’s Mox plant cost taxpayers £2.2bn – Julian Whittle
• Europe: France Local – France orders probe into ‘unsafe’ nuclear base
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – Growing evidence of radioactive contamination in DRC
• Europe: antiwar.com – Pointless: US Inexplicably Keeping 22 Nukes in the Netherlands – Jason Ditz
• Europe: Ecologistas en Acción – The nuclear power plant of Garoña is closer to its definitive end after a strange process – Francisco Castejón
• Russia: Bellona – Russian Ministry of Defense holding up dismantlement of Lepse floating radioactive waste ship – Alexei Pavlov

Monday, June 10, 2013

• ABC 10 – Inside sources from San Onofre give Team 10 more info on plant shutdown – Mitch Blacher
• Bloomberg – San Onofre Seen as Latest Setback for U.S. Nuclear Power – Brian Wingfield, Mark Chediak & Julie Johnsson
• Los Angeles Times – Utility economics and the San Onofre fiasco: Further thoughts – Michael Hiltzik
• Power Engineering – Nuclear on the ropes as media reacts to SONGS closure
• Society of Environmental Journalists – California Nuclear Plant To Shut: Unforgiving Nuclear Economics
• Vancouver Columbian – Plaintiffs in Hanford case hope for a settlement – Karen Dorn Steele
• Telluride Watch – Costs of Nuclear Don’t Add Up – Edwin Schlapfer
• Smart Energy Universe – Wind Energy Trumps Nuclear: MidAmerican Scraps Plans for New Reactors
• AFP Google – Global warming ‘to be double the 2 degree target’: IEA – Richard Lein
• All Things Nuclear – The Interview That Wasn’t – Gregory Kulacki
• CounterPunch – Visions of a Nuclear Free World – Karl Grossman
• Scientific American blog – Will “Pandora’s Promise” Start a New Environmental Movement for Nuclear Power? – David Ropeik
• FCNL – Nuclear Calendar Update
• Canada: Ottawa Citizen – Federal government will raise nuclear liability cap to $1B from $75M
• Oceania: Adelaide Now – Gava: There is a good case for Australia to become the world’s nuclear waste depository.
• Oceania: Marianas Variety – ‘Radioactive elements could still be present on Guam’
• Asahi Shimbun – ASAHI POLL: 59% oppose Abe’s nuclear power policy
• Green Action Japan – Is Japan headed for another Fukushima? Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority Capitulates to Electric Utility on Earthquake Assessment – Aileen Mioko Smith
• JAIF – Nuclear News
• Japan Times – Editorial: Cease promoting nuclear power
• Yomiuri Shimbun – U.S. N-plant firm to seek damages from MHI
• Europe: AFP Google – Researchers optimistic radioactive lead can beat cancer – Jean-Louis Santini
• Europe: BBC News – US nuclear bombs ‘based in Netherlands’ – ex-Dutch PM Lubbers
• East Europe: Sofia News Agency – Bulgaria Backtracks on Reviving Belene N-Plant Project